Events

Robin Ince – Cambridge Literary Festival

Cambridge

November 24, 2018

4pm

As a connoisseur of comedy, Robin Ince has spent decades mining our eccentricities to create gags and watching other strange individuals do the same. And for years on BBC R4’s TheInfinite MonkeyCage he has sought to understand the world around us. In his latest book I’ma Joke and So Are You he unites these pursuits to examine the human condition through the prism of humour. Why do we make the choices we do? Where does anxiety come from? Where does imagination come from? Why are we like we are? Do our parents f*&k us up? Informed by personal insights from his own life as well as interviews with a bevy of A-list comedians, neuroscientists, psychologists and doctors – this is a hilarious and often moving primer to the mind.